Meanings
comparative more Oxfordish · superlative most Oxfordish
- UKcolloquialResembling or characteristic of the English city of Oxford.
- UKcolloquialdatedThe slang spoken at the University of Oxford.
"[…] Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long." "Last Long?" "Hem! last protracted vacation."
1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash
Origin
From Oxford + -ish. Piecewise doublet of Oxfordesque.
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